Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:07:46 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDStats - What is involved ... ? Message-ID: <20060828170450.M82634@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060828130247.GA77702@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20060825233420.V82634@hub.org> <20060826112115.GG16768@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060826132138.H82634@hub.org> <200608261848.16513.max@love2party.net> <20060826165209.V82634@hub.org> <20060828130247.GA77702@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Brooks Davis wrote: > While I understand (or think I understand) the motivations for this > design goal, it's contrary to allowing collection of statistics from > many people. I'd love to be able to publish data from the FreeBSD > systems (300+) at work, but unless I can do it in an anonymized > aggregate form it's not going to happen. I just can't justify leaking > that much internal configuration information given a policy of hiding it > (right or wrong and not subject to debate). If I could run my own stats > server and publish from it that might be possible. Agreggate submissions will never be possible, as it will definitely break any attempts at keeping the data 'clean' :( I do understand that we will never be able to get *everyone* reporting, but we will try as much as possible to make it easy for as many as possible to report *within* limits ... I'm going to work on an 'email submission' method in September, that would allow repoting to go *thru* one mailbox, and will include a confirmation/challenge stage *per* server though ...
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